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Colorado State University students found that Batavian lettuce varieties are most resistant to bolting, with Nevada, Sierra and Tahoe cultivars the best. Butter lettuce varieties also showed good resistance to bolting. #lettuces #growingveg #ediblegardens #vegetablegarden
For your pleasure, a very different floral display. #spain #flowers #floralart #embroidery #crossstich #streetscene #streetart![]()
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Delicate Cross-Stitched Flowers Pop Up on the Streets of Spain
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Raquel Rodrigo adds delicate floral embroideries to crumbling walls and urban architecture.
Bring us your gardening questions! Register for our free online advice clinic, one week from today. Wednesday, March 10, 12:00-1:00pm. Register right away at the link below. #gardenadvice #gardenQ&A #gardenquestions #gardenhelp![]()
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Toronto Master Gardeners - Virtual Advice Clinic. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Nature Conservancy has developed a map that shows where reforestation can be done relatively easily, to capture carbon and improve the US environment in other ways. Where's ours?![]()
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Map: Here’s where we could plant 68 billion trees in the U.S.
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There’s a lot of former forestland in the country. What if we planted trees on it again?
Seed packages show the weeks needed to get a seedling ready to plant out. Add a week for hardening off seedlings. For example, to plant snapdragons outdoors the week of May 24 takes 11 weeks total. So, seed them the week of March 8. #growingfromseed #seedstarting #springtasks
A snowdrop bulb worth $2,400 CDN?? Check this out.
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Joe Sharman started breeding snowdrops before anyone else and, after 10 years of meticulous work, he created the most expensive snowdrop ever sold. Today, he continues his quest for ever more curious ...
More fabulous pollinator images from Janet Davis. #pollinators #gardenphotography #janetsdailypollinator
Janet’s Daily Pollinators for January
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I’ve just completed the third month of my 2020-21 Covid winter project – another thirty of my favourite pollinators posted in photo stories on my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Here’s their....
Here's an excellent short video about what kind of pruning tools do what and why. The speaker is Lee Reich, PhD, author of The Pruning Book. ![]()
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A Survey of Pruning Tools - FineGardening
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Whether you are pruning hedges, shrubs, or fruit trees, the right tool makes all the difference. In this clip from Fine Gardening’s Pruning DVD, horticulturist Lee Reich, Ph.D., of New [...]
The Manitoba Master Gardeners will host Zoom webinars, ![]()
March 4 and March 11 at 7:00pm CST to 'Chat with the Gardeners' from their 'Gardening in the Heart' 6-part garden video series. Registration for March 4 here: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZtNfzkPYSXmCk9GWEx7T0gand for March 11: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_em0roUJ8SF-_fFRg3go
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CHAT WITH LINDA CAMERON - A SCIENTIST IN HER GARDEN, DIANA DHALIWAL - HOME ON THE PRAIRIES, KIYOKO ULRICH AND ED AMMAN - MILLENIUM GARDENS, A GARDEN FOR A COMMUNITY PLEASE VIEW THE GARDEN VIDEOS IN AD...